After six months of development, the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.35 system library has been released, which fully complies with the requirements of the ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017 standards. The new release includes fixes from 66 developers. Among the improvements implemented in Glibc 2.35, we can note: Added support for the “C.UTF-8” locale, which includes sorting rules for all Unicode codes, but to save space, limited to […]
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project announced the beginning of the formation of 64-bit assemblies of the Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) distribution, based on the Debian 11 package base and optimized for Raspberry Pi boards. Until now, the distribution has only provided 32-bit builds that were unified for all boards. From now on, for boards with processors based on the ARMv8-A architecture, such as the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (SoC […]
GitHub announced that NPM repositories are enabling two-factor authentication for the 100 NPM packages that are included as dependencies in the largest number of packages. Maintainers of these packages will now be able to perform authenticated repository operations only after enabling two-factor authentication, which requires login confirmation using one-time passwords (TOTP) generated by applications such as Authy, Google Authenticator and FreeOTP. Soon […]
The DeepMind company, known for its developments in the field of artificial intelligence and the construction of neural networks capable of playing computer and board games at the human level, presented the AlphaCode project, which is developing a machine learning system for generating code that can participate in programming competitions on the Codeforces platform and demonstrate average result. A key development feature is the ability to generate code […]
The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 7.3. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various Linux, Windows and macOS distributions. 147 developers took part in preparing the release, of which 98 are volunteers. 69% of the changes were made by employees of the companies overseeing the project, such as Collabora, Red Hat and Allotropia, and 31% of the changes were added by independent enthusiasts. LibreOffice release […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 98 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next Chrome 99 release is scheduled for March 1th. […]
After a year and a half of development, a stable release of the composite server Weston 10.0 has been published, developing technologies that contribute to the emergence of full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE and other user environments. Weston's development aims to provide a high-quality code base and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, TVs […]
Valve continues to develop the Gamescope composite server (formerly known as steamcompmgr), which uses the Wayland protocol and is used in the operating system for SteamOS 3. On February 3, Gamescope added support for AMD FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) supersampling technology, which reduces the loss of image quality when scaling on high resolution screens. The operating system SteamOS XNUMX is based on Arch […]
NVIDIA has presented the first stable release of the new branch of the proprietary NVIDIA driver 510.39.01. At the same time, an update was proposed that passed the stable branch of NVIDIA 470.103.1. The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64) and Solaris (x86_64). Main innovations: Added support for Vulkan 1.3 graphics API. Support for accelerating video decoding in AV1 format has been added to the VDPAU driver. Implemented a new background process nvidia-powerd, […]
After two years of development, the release of the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 4.9.0 has been published, which allows you to use one physical terminal to work with several applications, which are allocated separate virtual terminals that remain active between different user communication sessions. Among the changes: Added escape sequence '%e' to show the encoding used in the status line (hardstatus). On the OpenBSD platform to run […]
The release of the completely free Linux distribution Trisquel 10.0 was released, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base and aimed at use in small businesses, educational institutions and home users. Trisquel has been personally endorsed by Richard Stallman, is officially recognized by the Free Software Foundation as completely free, and is listed as one of the foundation's recommended distributions. Installation images available for download are […]
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University (Israel), the University of Lille (France) and the University of Adelaide (Australia) have developed a new technique for identifying user devices by detecting GPU operating parameters in a web browser. The method is called "Drawn Apart" and is based on the use of WebGL to obtain a GPU performance profile, which can significantly improve the accuracy of passive tracking methods that work without using cookies and without storing […]
